http://mindhacks.com/2008/01/12/nature-neuropod-visits-sfn-megaconference/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2008/01/12/nature-neuropod-visits-sfn-megaconference/#comment-6920 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:40:29 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/nature-neuropod-visits-sfn-megaconference/#comment-6920 Hi there,
You’re quite right in that synaptic plasticity is a very fine-grained experience-related change to the structure of the brain, but in this context it typically means structural changes on a scale large enough to be detected by structural neuroimaging (e.g. MRI) or post-mortem brain studies.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2008/01/12/nature-neuropod-visits-sfn-megaconference/#comment-6919 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:27:36 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/nature-neuropod-visits-sfn-megaconference/#comment-6919 I’m a bit new to neuroscience so when people refer to “experience-related changes to the structure of the human brain”, can you elaborate on what this means? I’m familiar with synaptic plasticity, but I suppose this implies something more such as dendritic changes? Links would be great.

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